Apple has closed without further explanation the web service “Block Activation”, which allowed you to lock (and unlock) the iPhone and iPad stolen or lost. In reality, the system had a flaw that allowed attackers to unlock the iPhone and the iPad locked, which also causes problems to other unsuspecting users.
Apple has not issued any official communication, but it is possible to understand what happened, starting from the web service removed last Monday. All the latest generations of iPhone and iPad can be locked irreversibly in the event of loss or theft, so that they can resold because they may not be associated with information of a new user at the expense of the old. The web-based system, however, according to when he writes MacRumors, he would have had a serious security problem that allowed hackers to act, not only unlocking the phones and tablets that are lost, but even blocking those unsuspecting computer users.
The problem would be related to a weakness in the security of the Apple ID (the software that Apple associates the digital identity of a user to a particular iPhone or iPad) that would, by changing the last two numbers of the code associated with the phone (the codes IMEI, and ICCID), to unlock a particular phone or tablet that was locked by the owner because lost or stolen when you guess a number that belongs to another registered device.
This is the second element, as reported in a series of reports emerged in the network of users who have seen it suddenly stop responding to their phone or tablet-Apple, because of a problem with collateral. The manoeuvre of the workers of iniquity, in fact, would move the block from the stolen phone to another device, the innocent, whose only misfortune is to have a code of IMEI and ICCID is equal to that “found” by the thieves.
For this reason, according to the reconstructions of the specialized sites in the us, Apple would have decided to close temporarily (or perhaps permanently) the website of the service Block Activation.
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